Pope Benedict calls for true sexual education

VATICAN CITY, January 14 (CNA) - Pope Benedict XVI made an appeal for provisions that would protect human development and families as he met with local elected officials in a private audience on Wednesday. 

U.S. bishops reactivate nationwide campaign against federal abortion funding

With House and Senate leaders meeting behind closed doors to forge a health care overhaul bill, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)  has reactivated its grassroots campaign to encourage Catholics nationwide to tell lawmakers they oppose  federal funding of abortion

Christ was born so that mankind can be reborn in baptism, Pope Benedict teaches

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday morning by offering Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he would also baptize a group of children.

Pope Benedict sends personal secretary to disturbed woman

The Director of the Vatican Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, confirmed in a press communiqué on Sunday that over the holidays Benedict XVI sent his personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, to the woman who caused him to fall on Christmas Eve.

U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta will appear on a U.S. postal stamp in 2010, the postal service announced last week.

New Catholic mandate on comatose patients

The nation's Catholic hospitals, including three in the Bay Area, face a new religious mandate in the new year: to provide life-sustaining food

Malaysian Catholic weekly site hacked over "Allah"

The website of a Malaysian Catholic newspaper has been hacked after the High Court allowed the paper the right to use "Allah" for God in its Malay-language

Cardinal leaves huge legacy for Catholic Church

Although Cardinal Desmond Connell of Dublin, who is 83, is in poor health, Cardinal Sean Brady, the current head of the Catholic Church in Ireland